This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish , is: Best Books You’ve Read In 2017 So Far. Books 1-3 are the ones I’ve given 4.5 Stars to and all the rest have 4. It was hard to narrow down which 4 star reads would make the list, but I went for the ones that are the most likely to be re-reads in the future.

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the Broke and the Bookish, is: Top Ten Things That Will Make Me Instantly NOT Want To Read A Book. You can check out my post from last week with things that make me instantly want to read a book here.

1. Surprise Pregnancy/Surprise-You’re-A-Father!

2. Love Triangles.

3. Historical Fiction that features real historical figures as the main characters.

4. Over the top amount of profanity.

5. “Steamy” scenes in YA.

6. Mocking religion/faith.

7. Notes from the editor or author in the beginning of the book saying how good/important it is (Can we say, “Trying too hard?”).

8. Cheating.

9. A “Surprise” element that wasn’t mentioned in the synopsis – like when a general fiction book suddenly reveals magic/supernatural elements without warning.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is: Top Ten Things That Will Make Me Instantly Want To Read A Book. No explanation really needed. I’m sharing one book that fits with each category (click on the cover for my review or the Good Reads page).

1. Fake Relationships.

2. Positively Portrayed Christian Characters.

3. A Big Twist.

4. Unreliable Narrator.

5. Multiple 1st Person POV

6. An Appealing Cover.

7. Friendship – to – Love.

8. Jane Austen Re-Telling

9. Banter.

10. Pierce Brown.

What are some things that make you instantly want to read a book?

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is: Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read For The First Time In 2016. To make this a little more difficult I am not including authors who had debut books in 2016 – because they’re new to everyone, not just to me.

5. Black Crouch – Read: Dark Matter. Though I didn’t think Dark Matter really lived up to the hype, I was very impressed with his writing. I watched most of the first season of Wayward Pines and really liked it until it got really weird, but it did make me really want to try the book series.

6. Vince Flynn – Read: American Assassin, Kill Shot. My brother, who is not a big reader, became obsessed with the Mitch Rapp series and gave me the first couple of books to read and I enjoyed them. I definitely plan on continuing to read the rest of the series. Sadly, Vince Flynn has passed away. A new author has taken over the series, though, so there should still me more Mitch Rapp stories to come.

7. Tamara Ireland Stone – Read: Every Last Word. I’m not really sure if I’m interested in her other books, but Every Last Word will always be a very important book to me. I have never related to a character as much as I did with the MC in that book.

9. Denise Hunter – Read: Many, many of her books! So I’ve probably read more books by Denise Hunter this year than any other author and I don’t feel like listing them all. There have been several that I really, really enjoyed and a couple that I really hated or even DNF-ed. Despite the bad ones, I still have more books from her on my TBR.

10. Ruth Ware – Read: The Woman in Cabin 10. The Woman in Cabin 10 definitely had some creepy, hard-to-put-down moments and I want to check out more from her.

1. Yes, it’s on every list today, but I’m so excited for Crooked Kingdom(Six of Crows #2) by Leigh Bardugo! It’s out today, but I’m waiting until tomorrow to buy it when I go to a book signing!!

2. Roseblood by A.G. Howard. I’ve had this on my TBR forever and I got approved for an ARC of it yesterday and I’m so excited! It’s a Phantom and the Opera re-telling and I don’t think I’ve ever read one of those before.

3. Famous in Loveby Rebecca Serle. This is going to be the show that will fill the Pretty Little Liars void this spring on Freeform, so I thought I’d read it before then to see if I want to watch the show.

4. The Kept Woman (Will Trent #8) by Karin Slaughter. I have been waiting for a new Will Trent book for-ev-er! And I have to wait a little while longer until my library hold comes in.

5. The Power (Titan #2) by Jennifer Armentrout. This book has FINALLY came to the library so hopefully my hold will come in soon.